Move Silently skill?

[Effidian]

How does the Move Silently skill benefit your character? With Hide in Shadows and without Move Silently, my character can effectively fight from shadows just fine. So, where does Move Silently come into play? Only when "stealing" from containers close to NPCs?

[Ivanil]

How does the Move Silently skill benefit your character? With Hide in Shadows and without Move Silently, my character can effectively fight from shadows just fine. So, where does Move Silently come into play? Only when "stealing" from containers close to NPCs?

it comes into play when u try to move in the middle of a battle, if its sucess u'll see a "silent" on the status window. It means that every step won't be heard from any monster and won't folo u (if they don't see you, of course).

[Effidian]

it comes into play when u try to move in the middle of a battle, if its sucess u'll see a "silent" on the status window. It means that every step won't be heard from any monster and won't folo u (if they don't see you, of course).

Typically, I am hidden and want them to be close to me so I can hit them. So is not having Move Silently a blessing? I don't really care if they follow me, if they can't see me.

[Ivanil]

True

but sometimes I wish to aproach silently and kill a thug whit a single hit (i am an assasin lv 20) it works very often and u'll realize that sometimes u dont want to be surrounded by 4 monster

[Effidian]

That would make perfect sense if there was some kind of positional attack bonus, but I don't believe there is right? Since I can attack without breaking my hiding status, having 4 around me doesn't really matter. Does it?

Or am I missing something?